Live from Baghdad

Live from Baghdad
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Format:  DVD-R
item number:  ARG6
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DVD-R Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: March 20, 2012
  • Originally Released: 2002
  • Label: Warner Archives

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 4,573
One of the best movies I've seen about electronic journalism.
Ebert & Roeper
Dec 2, 2002
Michael Keaton gives his most taut performance since an uncredited turn in Out of Sight and Helena Bonham-Carter has split the difference between her Merchant Ivory days and her desolate Marla in David Fincher's Fight Club. Full Review
culturevulture.net
Dec 8, 2002
The teleplay from Wiener, Richard Chapman, John Patrick Shanley and Timothy J. Sexton is mostly taut and exciting, except when it pauses for a minimally romantic time out between Wiener and Formanek.
Hollywood Reporter
Feb 13, 2003
... not only are we permitted to watch on a cable channel that doesn't even have a news division, but we are encouraged to be nostalgic about the first assault on Saddam Hussein just in time for the second. Full Review
New York Magazine/Vulture
Jan 30, 2018
Rating: 3.5/5 -- Nothing fascinates the media as much as itself. Full Review
Filmcritic.com
Jul 3, 2003
As a movie, Live From Baghdad constitutes another first-class production from HBO.
Washington Post
Jan 6, 2003
Rating: 6/10 -- Mick Jackson's Live From Baghdad works as an entertaining drama, but it provides disappointingly inadequate context in its depiction of the events surrounding the 1991 Gulf War.
All Movie Guide
Jan 5, 2003

Description by OLDIES.com:

In 1990, CNN was a 24-hour news network in search of a 24-hour story. They were about to find it in Baghdad. Veteran CNN producer Robert Wiener and his longtime producing partner Ingrid Formanek find themselves in Iraq on the eve of war. Up against the big three networks, Weiner and his team are rebels with a cause, willing to take risks to get the biggest stories and - unlike their rivals - take them live at a moment's notice. As Baghdad becomes an inevitable US target, one by one the networks pull out of the city until only the crew from CNN remains. With a full-scale war soon to be launched all around them, and CNN ready to broadcast whatever happens 24 hours a day, Wiener and Formanek are about to risk their lives for the story of a lifetime.

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  • Sales Rank: 70,173
  • UPC: 883316444375
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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